* How to setup LiveSplit & Autosplitter [PC]

If you're new to speedrunning Little Nightmares and/or speedrunning in general and want your time to appear on the leaderboard, please be sure to read this guide thoroughly to ensure LiveSplit is setup and recording your time correctly.

**1**. Download and extract LiveSplit. ([Link](http://livesplit.github.io/downloads/))
**2**. Download and extract example empty Splits file ([Link](https://www.speedrun.com/resourceasset/c9189))
**3**. Open LiveSplit. You should see a timer with '0.00'. Right click on it and select Open Splits->From File. Choose the Splits file.
**4**. Right click on the LiveSplit again and select Edit Splits.
**5**. Make sure Game Name and Run Category are filled in, the autosplitter should be automatically detected. Activate it if needed and press Ok to close Edit Splits window.
**6**. Right click on the LiveSplit again and select Edit Layout.
**7**. Now we will add second timer so we can track both loadless and time with loads. In the Layout Editor, press the (+) Button and select Timer->Timer. Double Click on each timer and make sure one is set to Real Time as the Timing Method and the other one to Game Time. Press Okay.
**8**. Right click on LiveSplit and under Compare Against, select Game Time.
**9**. Right click on LiveSplit and create save files for both your Splits and Layout.
**10**. Right click on Livesplit and select Settings. Change your hotkeys if you want but make sure that the Global Hotkeys option is checked, it will allow you to use the hotkeys while your game window is in focus. Although with the autosplitter you shouldn't really need them.

After doing all this, let's test if it works. With your LiveSplit open, start the game from a new save file. If your timer begins automatically after you **_restart the checkpoint_** at the starting cutscene and the game timer shows different time, you're good! It will not work if you watch the cutscene or start it manually. Always start your run by restarting checkpoint on the starting cutscene.

* Hungers Positions

Screenshots with exact positions for the Hungers. Missing Hungers are the ones that are not skipped by tripping. Refer to the Chapter Guides for more information.

#Prison
[Video Explanation](https://youtu.be/PnKLPEfoiKQ?t=335)

https://i.imgur.com/b1qHnld.jpg

#Lair
[Video Explanation](https://youtu.be/wZgEuLSDACM?t=76)

https://i.imgur.com/fRVL7Cb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/lbe94Rc.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4eVs1dI.jpg

#Kitchen
[Video Explanation](https://youtu.be/SZ3_Pup-fzk?t=5)

https://i.imgur.com/OUVP4iT.jpg

#Arrival of the Guests
[Video Explanation](https://youtu.be/ATnm9ERWK5Y?t=209)

https://i.imgur.com/7D12l1M.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vBk4usl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/q7XUNJ8.jpg

Chapter 1 - Prison (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnKLPEfoiKQ

Chapter 2 - The Lair (2021)

Chapter 3 - The Kitchen (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3_Pup-fzk

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(!) There is a new skip: https://www.speedrun.com/little_nightmares/guide/xb198 for more information visit the Discord.
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Chapter 4 - Arrival of the Guests (2021)

https://youtu.be/ATnm9ERWK5Y

For the Fat Guy skip use this strat instead: youtu.be/w2-8p6Jx_ak

Chapter 5 - Lady's Quarters (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qUsuiGUAz8&feature=youtu.be

Kitchen Clips (The SaiFly)

Important notes: standing or crouching has a minimal effect on the clip so don't worry about it. Jumping too much before you're fully clipped will result in clipping to the wrong side. My sprint button is bound to mouse button 4 so you can see where I start walking based on when the stamina meter freezes. Turning off Vsync might help with consistency as well. Adding to this, it's likely not be possible on console.

Kitchen: https://youtu.be/z3-HzpJLvI4
Tip for the starting chase: by walking under the table you regenerate some stamina and also makes sure that the chef won't just go after you right away.

Position yourself 2 tiles left and down from the green tiles (bottom left corner of the furthest left green tile is a good reference point ). Start sprinting right when the chef is about to do a step for the second visible time, go up+right after you're 4 tiles away from the right wall and time a slide (just tap, don't hold) to dodge the grab. Position yourself about a tile away from the doorframe/lock (The line is a good indicator). The amount of time you hold w during the slide determines how far you'll go so make sure you hold it for an appropriate amount of time so you have to do less adjustments.

With version 3 we got an improvement found by MythicCheese. Before this we thought going right when you get pushed is consistent, but we found that walking into the chef before you get pushed and then not moving while you get pushed is actually better.

The following tips apply if you're certain you start running right at the correct time and attempting the clip in the correct spot as explained above:
If you can't get past the chef, keeping going up slightly sooner until there is enough space. If the chef is able to turn at you, go up later.

Garbage pit: https://youtu.be/0ATFub7HKX0
Position yourself on the tile shown in the video. Facing angle does matter for aggro time so don't face the chef whatever you do. When the chef bobs back his head for the second time, start walking right and sprint just before you have reached the line in the middle of the room (6 tiles from both the left and right wall). Start going up about 2 tiles from the door and slide while arcing up. Then try to wedge yourself in the door with up+right after the chef did the second grab attempt. Be cautious with your jumps since they can also clip you out the wrong way. Also if you keep getting grabbed you might want to skip the left press from the video since it's not as necessary as in the first clip.

Feel free to make your own setup from these concepts, controller is probably also possible. This skip is so toxic that it's probably more efficient to derive a consistent way for yourself to do this based on the vids.

Known Skips

Chapter 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4KToYOD1iagpuLkxS-XjOB63HJ6XsIaD
Chapter 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4KToYOD1iajEsn0VUDpCHs7plbjJ1qr6
Chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4KToYOD1iahqAroa0hSxkJZKVw_aohqM
Chapter 4: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4KToYOD1iaimIPCtASUU9E3BIzNljN9I

Superslide guide

Recently geerky42 looked at older logs of the #ln1-routing channel and found a clip of someone doing a very funny slide in a run of The Lady's Quarters IL:

https://clips.twitch.tv/SmallDreamyOysterImGlitch

Of course noone at the time even responded when it was posted, because reproducing looked to be impossible. Though if you got it almost as fast as the standard zip, which was being used in IL's up to now, you could save a couple of additional seconds. Luckily I was able to realise what had happened and how to recreate it:

https://youtu.be/nF-m-WwyHJ4

First, the slidebug. Some runners will have come across this annoying glitch that causes you to instantly crouch and get completely stuck. It happens when you start moving in a direction you're facing and crouch at a specific timing. This depends on whether you're sprinting or not, but the walking version is slightly faster.

Note: you should know what a zip is and how to do it before you even consider learning this. Check the prison guide by Nikko for an example.

https://youtu.be/dSgJfCQYhWs

After doing a slidebug, there is a short period where you can only input movement and nothing else, after which you will still be crouching in a somewhat glitched state for a brief moment. By then doing a zip you can reapply the slidebug effect onto the slide, which will cause the slide to lose friction. Although you will yet again only be able to do movement inputs, your speed will tend to 412 u/s which is roughly the average speed of sprintjumping at full stamina (mostly 432 with a bit of 320 between jumps). This is called a superslide.

Input breakdown: slidebug inputs - release all - wait - zip inputs - wait basically no time - right - crouch release (doesn't have to be timed, doesn't affect the slide)

This is especially strong in The Lady's Quarters because you can just slide through the hole at the end of the hallway chase and keep the speed all the way to the stairs. Any sudden height changes will however kill the superslide, just like walls or you releasing movement inputs. Despite sprint not doing anything during the slide, you can hold it a couple seconds before the slide ends which appears to not slow you down as much.

Using this trick I was able to get the first ever sub-3:50 on The Lady's Quarters IL after 96 attempts, which is about 3 seconds faster than the zip version Nikko did in his run, and 6 seconds faster than the glitchless way used by Poklet.

https://youtu.be/D4r-d-PxHJE

Zerohop guide

A short introduction and guide on the relatively new tech called 'Zerohop' or '0hop' I found that allows you to reach engine cap (600 u/s) without cheats.

What it allows you to do is keep all of your speed by sprintjumping (full jumps not short jumps/tap jumps) repeatedly at less than 10 stamina, and even build up more speed slowly. At most stamina amounts it doesn't matter how soon you can jump, inbetween every jump there is a short gap where the game sets your speed to running before you can jump again. You can even try jumping before you land, if timed right the game will do a frame-perfect jump for you since there is a small input buffer for that. However it will still probably not work.

When I started running this game I started noticing that I could keep my speed at less than 10 stamina. This happened mostly before the crank at rope and with the old jump strat in kitchen. I never bothered to investigate since I thought this game was pretty much solved already as opposed to Little Nightmares II which had a new find every week pretty much. Boy was I wrong, and especially after I found kitchen clips I wanted to see this game destroyed as much as possible. After having zerohop happen on accident once again I finally decided to test it. As it turns out, there is a particular animation/state that allows you to jump before the speedcap of running is applied. It is doing full sprintjumps at less than 10 stamina without a chase flag*. Doing this repeatedly not only allows you to keep your speed indefinitely but even builds up a fixed amount of speed each jump because every jump in this game simply adds a fixed amount of speed and the devs assumed your speed is reset every jump.

To actually gain the most speed in a zerohop you will need to time your jump just before landing so the game does a frame perfect jump for you. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this except practice the jumps and get a feel for the timing. If you do happen to jump early and lose your speed because you didn't jump, don't panic or start spamming jump. Get back to sprinting speed first, since it's still 80% speed compared to full stamina, then try again.

Each jump in the zerohop chain will give you about 28 u/s of added speed if done right.
Speed chart: https://imgur.com/a/4HyiEKT

*Chase flag refers to the type of jumps you do at low stamina while being chased sometimes, with which zerohopping doesn't work.
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Because of this there are the following optional routing changes to the standard stamina management route:

Fridge to lever before Rope split:
https://youtu.be/zbYVll2kH4A
Timesave is about 1 to 2 seconds depending on how fast you climb the box at the lever and how clean your jumps are.
This one is very tough and doesn't even save that much because you need to get stamina back in order to jump the gap after the lever without climbing. The fact that the ground you have to jump over is unequal doesn't help in the slightest. So probably the last timesave in the game to go for. This is mostly just to flex on pre-2021 runners that sub-3:00 rope is easy and 2:57 is the real shit. Currently rope wr is 2:54.907

Bread to cages before prison split:
https://youtu.be/1gV42Dyp8jk
Timesave is about 2 to 4 seconds depending on if you keep your speed across the gap or have to abort and take the safer jump.
The ground is mostly flat but if you do jump from the doorstep thing, remember that you need to jump later on the next jump or else you will missjump. The area after the doorstep is in turn a bit higher than the bridge itself. The areas before and after the doorstep are the same height.

Medusa 2:
https://youtu.be/9c0pT8CW3hU
About 3 seconds of timesave if you get it as shown in the video, with the edge slide.
Doing it this way is pretty difficult because you need to slide off the edge of that step perfectly to get up to the speedcap as soon as I did. Usually you will just have to keep jumping normally off of those steps and the timing for that can be a bit rough. 

Prison end:
https://youtu.be/g7SyPPT6EDk
Very minimal timesave but there is not really a downside to dissuade you from doing this one since you would drain your stamina there anyway.
You can just keep jumping and not have to worry about stamina at the very end there like you used to, this one is pretty easy because the ground is completely flat.

Hull:
https://youtu.be/NlcKcjgMCLQ
This is a spicy timesave of possibly as much as 8 seconds if you hit everything like a TAS, perhaps the most difficult of the bunch though.
The cause of this is the fact that the jump timing constantly changes based on your speed and position on the pipe. The reason you save so much time is partially because some parts are perfectly angled to give the maximum amount of acceleration and I will get into that more in the conclusion.

Guest area:
https://youtu.be/IbX95f2fXK0
I'm just linking the entire IL here because I can. Especially the start and chase are important though. Throughout this chapter there are a metric ton of triggers that reset your stamina to 100 and we have to work around them as well as we can.

The zerohops at the start maybe save a second overall so I feel like you should keep those for later, but they are easier than the fridge zerohops for example. The current bottle community gold doesn't use them but it gets a fast climb at the lamp which saves more time than this because of stamina complications. It's currently disputed whether or not it's actually a second slower to do this because you lose 2 seconds getting a slow climb at the lamp, which is caused by trying to do the lamp swing too early.

The chase however can save you maybe 4 or 5 seconds if you zerohop both halves pretty well. First of all, there is a chase flag set on you when you do fat guy skip, this is why I reset to checkpoint at the elevator, because it clears that state in which you can't zerohop. If you don't intend on doing any zerohopping after fat guy skip, do not reload to checkpoint as in that case it would just lose you time.

For the first half, you can try to drain some stamina in advance while you're going up in the elevator. Then just start jumping. Be wary of the doorsteps, if you jump just before them you might land after jumping right away which can mess you up. At the end of the first half lies a stamina trigger that resets your stamina back to full. This happens just before the raised platform. Speaking of which, if you get the perfect lineup into the room with the raised platform it's possible to zerohop just before the trigger and make it up on the platform without climbing.

The second half is a bit more difficult and saves less than the first, but its goal is to make the second cabinet fall as soon as humanly possible which involves keeping speed down the stairs which is not the most fun activity I can think of, oh well. If you really want to do this but zerohopping down the stairs is too much, try waiting a little longer after the table to start jumping and it should still save time. Just don't forget that the first cabinet that should drop behind you can kill your run whenever it feels like it.

On the last table before the lamp swing getaway is the biggest difference between stamina management and this, since you start with no speed so you just have to get to sprinting speed and start a very slow zerohop chain. There is also a way to zerohop into the lamp but that's precise. After you start swinging on the lamp, jump off as soon as possible to avoid the soft fall. You can keep the speed from the swing by doing two zerohops into the door opening but I don't get it in the run which might've cucked the 4:16 in this case.

Conclusion:
Zerohopping can really be done anywhere with the ln1 engine, even in the DLC, but the limiting factors of timesave are: Stamina management, acceleration/speed and chase flags.

Stamina management for certain spots where zerohopping is technically reasonable, like before chair skip, is sometimes just impractical. In that part there are just too many small rooms to gain any real speed, and chair skip without full stamina is very hard.

Acceleration and speed preservation is also a roadblock. With what we know right now zerohopping up stairs isn't humanly possible and maybe impossible altogether because you need to do full jumps. With how generous jumping in this game is though, it's probably possible somehow. Going up a slope like the pipe in Hull is beneficial to acceleration however, because the game adds some speed for every jump (around 32 u/s), in theory this means that the acceleration gets higher as a slope gets steeper, but for humans it's very hard to time zerohops up a slope, especially with big speeds involved. If you have more speed you need to jump exponentially more frequent due to acceleration and the fact that you're moving into the surface you're jumping from faster. If that makes any sense :D

Chase flags/triggers were put into the game by the devs presumably to help casual players not die in a chase. They give you extra fast jumps at low stamina for a certain area where you need to avoid an autoscrolling chase. Unfortunately the jumps you do in that case don't allow you to zerohop so for speedrunners it ironically slows us down. The triggers we don't know how to quickly clear right now are the Roger elevator chase and the second half of Lady's quarters. As soon as the chase AI spawns in you automatically start doing those jumps instead of zerohops.

This trick has by no means been solved yet though. The DLC's have this tech in them as well and even though I have no extremely clear memory of them, I do remember how big the levels are compared to the main game chapters. Since I don't run those chapters yet I haven't actually gone through them to test certain spots. I am also not perfect so there could be some spots in the main game. I'm overlooking right now that end up saving time with zerohop.

Even with limited routing we already have 20-22 seconds (if done perfectly) of timesave.

I wish you good luck with practice!

日本人の走者/走者を目指す方へ/For Japanese Runners

日本語のガイドが無かったので作りました。わからないことがあればリトルナイトメアのDiscordサーバーの日本語専用チャンネルか私のDiscordやTwitterまでご連絡ください。
あなたの参加をお待ちしています！
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13YRqN5Zeg0CftAI_Vm2_c5v1uLxhz06n6kW5LWtSFIw/edit?usp=sharing
勉強会の動画はこちら①　https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1463633376　②　https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1471811489　③　https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1484322442
NMG　https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1298605501

Name	Author
* How to setup LiveSplit & Autosplitter [PC]	Nikko 1 year ago
* Hungers Positions	Nikko 2 years ago
Chapter 1 - Prison (2021)	Nikko 2 years ago
Chapter 2 - The Lair (2021)	Nikko 2 years ago
Chapter 3 - The Kitchen (2021)	Nikko 2 years ago
Chapter 4 - Arrival of the Guests (2021)	Nikko 2 years ago
Chapter 5 - Lady's Quarters (2021)	Nikko 2 years ago
Kitchen Clips (The SaiFly)	SaiMoen 2 years ago
Known Skips	TheLastToRun 6 years ago
Superslide guide	SaiMoen 2 years ago
Zerohop guide	SaiMoen 8 months ago
日本人の走者/走者を目指す方へ/For Japanese Runners	dosufura 1 year ago